This message was picked up by the 39-year-old woman police inspector Kim Sang-hee at 2:49 a.m., June 29.

The woman in her 20s reportedly said he was going to take her to her home but headed for some kind of a hotel, the location of which she did not know.

The inspector sensed the urgency in the caller’s voice and tried to calm her down, saying that “police will be there shortly. Please be patient.”

She proceeded to track down the location of the mobile phone of the caller by using the global positioning system (GPS) and determined that she was in a hotel in Seocho-dong, southern Seoul. It took a total of three minutes and 20 seconds to arrest the culprit.

Up until the middle of October, Inspector Kim dealt with 23,475 calls of through 112 emergency calls at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, ranking her top among the 126 staff members in charge of handling 112 reports.

3. Neighbor directly beside me left home around 1am, some time later her daughter perhaps 6-8 years old apparently woke up, screaming and cried for 30 minutes looking for her mother before i finally gave in and called the cops

4, Watched a punk at the building next to mine key the heck out of a car that was parked in the spot where he usually parks his car (on the street, not an assigned parking space)

In all cases, I spoke Korean, and the cops were there within minutes, no more than 10, but usually within 5.

My most memorable moment with Korean police was when they tried to pull over my taxi driver. He had done some bone-headed move and they put on their sirens. I was surprised when the driver refused to pull over and kept going. The police car pulled up next to us and used their bullhorn to tell us to pull over. The taxi driver responded by yelling a bunch of curses and kept going. Then amazingly, the police started pleading with him to pull over, then just gave up and drove off when he refused. I was shocked at just how powerless they were.

My most memorable moment with Korean police was when they tried to pull over my taxi driver. He had done some bone-headed move and they put on their sirens. I was surprised when the driver refused to pull over and kept going. The police car pulled up next to us and used their bullhorn to tell us to pull over. The taxi driver responded by yelling a bunch of curses and kept going. Then amazingly, the police started pleading with him to pull over, then just gave up and drove off when he refused. I was shocked at just how powerless they were.

She proceeded to track down the location of the mobile phone of the caller by using the global positioning system (GPS) and determined that she was in a hotel in Seocho-dong, southern Seoul. It took a total of three minutes and 20 seconds to arrest the culprit.

I'd really like to know more about how she did that. I'm on the 17th floor of the Trade Tower and even with GPS on, my phone tracks within a radius of 30-100 meters at best from inside the building. That would mean I could be alternatively in the Intercontinental, the City Air Terminal, the COEX Mall, the COEX exhibition center, or a number of smaller buildings around the area.

Outside, standing on one side of Teheran-ro, the GPS usually locates me on the opposite site. Inside most other buildings, the phone defaults to cell tower triangulation which widens the radius to 500-1,000m. I might be sitting in the baseball stadium now.

The report doesn't mention whether the woman kept her phone connection with the police running, and I don't think that the police has a super secret access code to remotely locate every single phone in Korea. Maybe the woman just told her the building name and house number? Why did the perp let her make phone calls while taking her to the motel?

Seems to me to be a motivational story after the disaster with the Suwon caller.

My respect for Korean police would immediately rise if the Itaewon branch could move their cars from the road and release that critical stretch across the Hamilton for traffic. Congestion at this intersection would decrease significantly. They could use these cars to find and fine illegally parked cars who block other stretches of the road there, and have those idiots towed who think that pedestrian (zebra) crossings are their specially reserved parking spaces.

My most memorable moment with Korean police was when they tried to pull over my taxi driver. He had done some bone-headed move and they put on their sirens. I was surprised when the driver refused to pull over and kept going. The police car pulled up next to us and used their bullhorn to tell us to pull over. The taxi driver responded by yelling a bunch of curses and kept going. Then amazingly, the police started pleading with him to pull over, then just gave up and drove off when he refused. I was shocked at just how powerless they were.

This is story that you would never hear in America/Canada. In North America the taxi drivers tires would have been shot out and there probably would have been a huge car wreck for the tires being shot out.

I don't have a phone, so I had to write a note and flag down a police car a few minutes ago to report what was either an abduction or a bizarre domestic problem involving a man strongarming a young lady down the sidewalk and into his car in front of my local E Mart.

Once when a friend visited from the States, a dude on line 6 had a seizure on the platform, his glasses cut him on the forehead when he fell. A train came, we were standing there looking at droves of Koreans that were pretty much walking over him but no one helped except the cleaning lady and two subway attendants. I called 119 and waited for the ambulance to arrive. They were there in 5 min.